Books in the Old Testament Readings series

Psalms is divided into three main parts to provide an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the Psalms. It uses a line by line approach and applies it in depth to a selection of individual psalms.

Mark Brett places the first book of the Bible firmly within its sociopolitical context. He argues that it can be read as resistance literature and that the editors of Genesis were directly engaged with contemporary issues.

This book presents a unique approach to Ezra-Nehemiah in the combination of two approaches - the literary and the historical. It challenges commonly held assumptions not from radical theory, but from careful attention to the text itself.

Argues that the Book of Judges is essentially a political tract and not a historical account of the conquest of Israel and the rise of the monarch, or an ancient Israelite work of literary fiction.